Sentences with phrase «friends were convinced»

But after we increased the downforce by 50 percent, even our German friends were convinced...»

All my friends were CONVINCED it would be Julie Christie just because the academy loves that meaty romantic fare, but I knew that Cotillard's whirlwind performance just could NOT be ignored.

Actress Felicity Jones» family and friends were convinced the star was keeping baby news a secret from them after photos of her sporting a baby bump...

A number of my mom friends were convinced to try BLW after seeing Max's joyful mealtimes.

My friend was convinced to move her money to Edward Jones by this slick guy she met playing volleyball.

Most of Job's friends are convinced Job did something wrong he won't admit to.

My friend was convinced that this «hiding» was sinful and wrong.

My friend was convinced to VBAC for her second because «natural is better,» and gave birth with a midwife present without pain meds because «natural is better,» and was slightly post-dates because «natural is better.»

Tyler and his friends are convinced the Maryland School of the Arts is an institution for rich kids.

This friend is convinced that if he waits out 7 years of the loan it is taken off his credit history, as far as I know he never filed for personal bankruptcy.

Not exact matches

But Spangenberg describes his latest, and what he thinks will be the biggest and longest - lasting investing idea he has ever had, as something he stumbled into as a result of a friend convincing him to buy bitcoin.

Just as Nest and Dropcam convinced consumers it's not weird to have a security camera in your house, once enough of your friends are talking about the particulates in their water, you might feel differently.

The mental benefits are what led me to try to convince driver friends to get involved.

Munger and Buffett now say they were stingy in their initial offer, but Munger's friend Ira Marshall convinced him it was an unusual company, worth spending more to get.

In 2013, a friend and I were convinced by a tech - savvy acquaintance to invest in something called Litecoin — basically, Bitcoin's less expensive little sister.

Position these emails around showing ROI, convincing their boss of something, getting promoted, impressing friends and family, losing weight, or whatever it is that motivates your prospects every day.

(For instance I'm fairly confident that promiscuity is sinful, especially when it comes from a place of lust, but I'm less convinced that my committed same - sex friends are sinning by expressing their love physically any more than I am sinning when my wife and I express our love physically — even though I think we can be if we are acting out of lust or as a means of asserting power over one another, but that is another story).

I couldn't convince you to like my best friend: I can only share with you what a wonderful person my friend is.

The fear of the great nothing is too much for my mind to bear, and I can sleep at night by convincing myself that the absolute nothing we all face one day will instead be full of happy choirs of angels, reward for any suffering I've endured, punishment of the wicked and evil (it pains me to think those who cause so much evil will not suffer for eternity, so hell is a great comfort too), and that I'll get to see all those I currently miss since the death of friends and family are so painful.

Reminds me of the story of Nathanial... what a sucker he was... because Jesus saw him in a crowd the day before, Nathanial was convinced that John's new friend MUST be the messiah.

Please note, * I * am not asking for any evidence or proof of your imaginary friends and tribal myths — I am 100 % convinced there is none.

I've yet to be convinced, however, that Christianity is a big factor in the violence and aggression exhibited by the U.S. and friends.

I vividly remember debating Calvinism with many of my non-Calvinist friends, trying to convince them of what was eminently obvious to anyone with a working brain.

But I was convinced that I would remain a four - point Calvinist, just like my friend.

And if the stories of our black friends, family, and neighbors aren't enough to convince the doubters, then maybe the numbers will.

1) This is not a particularly hospitable place for agnostics 2) Nothing would crush my parents more than learning that their daughter has walked away from the faith 3) I have a book deal with a Christian publisher 4) I want to keep my Christian friends 5) My doubts come and go, so there's no reason to unnecessarily drag the people I love through my drama 6) If I fake it maybe I can convince myself that everything's okay

Surely you are aware that many have claimed they figured out the day Christ will return, and convinced their families and friends and sometimes others to sell everything (and interestingly this often involves giving the proceeds to the «prophet» who claims to have figured out the date of Jesus» return).

But at the time my friends convinced me it was important to finish my biography and provide two versions of Paul Tillich.

As good Christians it was once again our job to convince our neighbors, friends, and relatives to go to our church.

And yet, I have many friends who are convinced he's a Muslim, or that he's pretending to be a Christian for political gain... and, of course, they have very little to base this on.

Be careful trying to convince your friends about «Lori.»

While I'm happy to pray for the safety of my friends and loved ones who serve, I'm not convinced that America's present foreign adventures justify the full Goliath treatment in prayer.

It's not just about the divorce, it's also about the domestic violence, spiritual and psychological abuse, withholding child support to buy silence, SLAPPs, about how he convinced his prominent friends to lie for him.

I was meditating on Calvinism today because a friend at church Is convinced of this theology and he is willing to discuss it with me... but he knows the bible so much better than I do, I have thus been reluctanIs convinced of this theology and he is willing to discuss it with me... but he knows the bible so much better than I do, I have thus been reluctanis willing to discuss it with me... but he knows the bible so much better than I do, I have thus been reluctant.

I am becoming more and more convinced that if we look around at our friends and acquaintances, and none of them have any serious problems (more serious than what is shared in the typical church prayer meeting), we probably have not followed Jesus very far down the path of discipleship.

But what if the friend were nevertheless convinced that her illness was a punishment for her misdeeds?

One thing I am becoming more and more convinced of is that before you go blast someones life, theology, or practice, you should not go read a book about them, but instead endeavor to become friends with someone of that group.

Why are Christians so convinced that belief in the «imaginary friend for grownups» is required for good behavior?

Also, who wouldn't want to spend their last days on Earth with their families and friends, in the company of loved ones, rather than traveling around the country trying to convince people they are right so they feel better about themselves.

A friend who works in inner - city schools is convinced that student violence can be directly correlated with carbohydrate and sugar intake.

I do so not because I am trying to use more popular essays to entice some to read the more «serious» essays — indeed, I think that the more popular essays are the more serious — but because, I am convinced, as a friend has put it, that «arguments, including moral arguments, can not be separated from the descriptions that not merely accompany them, but make them possible.»

As members of these other religious communities became friends and neighbors, this kind of Christology ceased to be convincing.

That's the best way I can describe it without going into detail, which I won't bother doing because, Sabio my friend, judging by your blog you'll try to convince me it was a hallucination, then I'll try to explain why it wasn't, and we'll still be where we are now.

I first spoke in tongues at age 14, raised my hands in exuberant worship at revivals and camp meetings, witnessed to my friends at school and tried to convince Christian friends that they needed the «sign gift» of speaking in tongues to be fully Spirit - filled.

Right now, I'm trying to convince my daughter that she does not have to hold her friends to any higher standards than what they set for themselves.

So now I do not trust myself to tell me what is certain, as, being human, I am very adept at convincing myself to believe in things because I want to (or, sometimes, because it's what my parents and friends believe).

Since Jesus meant everything to them, they were convinced that he might mean something to their gentile friends as well.

I have another friend who's convinced it's her newly discovered intolerance for gluten that's the problem.

Because he was absolutely convinced that Jesus, who had been sentenced to death at the instigation of Paul's own friends for reasons of which he thoroughly approved, had encountered him personally with shattering effect.

a friend of mine tried to convince me today that all people really want is ignorance, that actually learning about the complexities of issues is just too difficult.